Bhagavad Gita Chapter : 1, verse 1

 Bhagavad Gita Chapter : 1, verse 1 

 

                   Dhritarashtra said |

     They gathered at Kurukshetra in the field of           Dharma and were eager to figh

       What did my Pandavas do, O Sanjaya?||1||

   

    Commentary -

  

          Dhritarashtra asked, "O Sanjaya, what did my sons and the sons of Pandu do

when they gathered together for battle on the Dharmabhumi of Kurukshetra?"

Dhritarashtra in the form of ignorance and Sanjay in the form of

moderation! Ignorance resides within the mind. The mind is engulfed in

this ignorance. Dhritarashtra is born blind; But through the patient

Sanjay, he is able to see and hear the happenings in Kurukshetra. He

knows for sure that God is the only truth; But as long as his Mohrupi

son Duryodhana is alive, his focus is on the Kauravas, or alternatively

the Vikars.

Religion is a sacred field. When the heart-shaped country is influenced

by divine wealth, this body becomes the Dharmakshetra. And when there

is influence of demonic possessions, the same body becomes Kurukshetra. The

word 'Kuru' meaning 'do' is imperative. Shri Krishna says - “From nature Motivated by the arising trigunas, man performs karma. He cannot be

without Karma even for a moment". Those Gunas take Karma from

him. Even though he is asleep, his Karma continues. That is, that Karma is

a kind of food to keep the body healthy. These three Gunas transform a

man from a god to a small worm. As long as Prakriti and the three qualities

arising from Prakriti exist, till then 'Kuru-Kara' will continue and therefore

the realm of birth and death, the realm of disorders is the Kurukshetra

and the realm of pious tendencies (Pandavas) which enter and merge

with the Supreme Supreme Soul is the Dharmakshetra.

Archaeologists are exploring Kurukshetra in Punjab, Kashi, Prayag,

Madhya Pradesh and many other places. But the lyricist Shri Krishna

himself has told where this war took place - 'Idam sharira kounteya

kshetramityabhidiyate'. "O Arjuna, this body is Kshetra, and he who knows this,

who understands its limits, is Kshetra." Further he has told the extent of this

area. It describes the ten senses, the mind, the intellect, the ego, the five disorders

and the trigunas. The body is the field, the arena. It has two conflicting tendencies.

One is a divine property and the other is a demonic property-Pandava-like

Sat Pravdhi and Kaurava-like Sat-Evil Propensity'.

After surrendering to the experienced great man, the conflict

between these two tendencies ends. This is the struggle between the field

and the field and that is the real fight, the war. The pages of history

are filled with world wars. But even the party that won those wars

could not get permanent victory. Wins and losses are changes. By

subduing nature completely, temporarily seeing, gaining knowledge

and access to the power beyond nature is the real victory. It is a victory that

is never followed by defeat - no defeat. That is the real liberation which is

not bound by birth and death.In this way every mind affected by ignorance can know what happened

in the battle of Kshetra and Kshetra through patience. Of course, to the

extent that patience is awakened, that person will get vision.